Concert for Jimmy Carter's 100th birthday September 17 2024

Well he better last until October 1st and then he better last until he fucking votes.

No Allman Brothers?

I remember expecting him to die before Memorial Day. Now we are in mid September and he is still hanging on. But he looks like the the grim reaper, and he is probably suffering. As nice as it would be to live to 100, I would rather live to a healthy and active 88 than an infirm ed 100.

He wants to live long enough to vote for Kamala Harris

Sadly, R2, most of the core group are dead (Duane & Gregg, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks, and Dickey Betts).

Maybe those from the later incarnation (Derek Trucks, Marc Quinones, and Warren Haynes) could sit in with Chuck Leavell and perform some classic Allmans tunes. That'd be quite nice.

R1 & R4, here's hoping Carter makes it until 100 and then until Election Day. And yes, his vote is important in Georgia in helping Kamala.

What could possibly go wrong in celebrating early?

R7, making it too 100 isn't easy, is it? Prince Philip and Bob Barker just missed out as well.

too = to

It's too bad Willie Nelson won't be performing there.

What happens if he croaks before then? Does it become a wake?

Will Jimmy be doing a number in the concert?

[quote] He wants to live long enough to vote for Kamala Harris

Yes, that's what the family wants us to believe of a man who appeared barely alive ten months.

^ ago.

Where are the pics from this event. How did it turn out?

[quote]Cheers erupted over Chuck Leavell’s performance of the Allman Brothers’ instrumental tune “Jessica.”

Lots of good pics here...

It was a great success. His grandson Jason is adorable. He should run for office.

[quote] His grandson Jason is adorable. He should run for office.

He did. He ran & lost the Georgia gubernatorial race in '14. With the political landscape more hospitable to Dems now, I hope he runs again.

Is Jason the Grim Reaper who gives monthly updates like "He's dying soon, No, really, he's a goner...no, seriously, okay, just not yet but soon. Soon I tell ya!"

Yes, R19, but he's not really grim.

When Mr. Jimmy turns in that ballot Jason wants the whole world to know he was lucid and knew what he was doing. No mater what.

I knew his health was bad, but…

I still blame myself for DL fav Luise Rainer's death, because I wished her a happy 105th birthday on here two weeks in advance...And then of course she dropped dead a day later. They're really jinxing poor Jimmy with this concert.

Jimmy just has t make it ten more days. Hang on Jimmy!

As his biographer Jonathan Alter noted, Jimmy Carter has been blind for many years now.

I didn’t realize that, R25. Before I read your post and after I made mine it occurred to me he might have been praying because he was at Rosalynn’s funeral.

R26, Alter noted that the blindness was related to brain surgery in 2019.

oh, wow!

I thought he had limited vision, not that he was blind.

I can only go what Alter said while promoting his 2020 biography, R29. And he said then that he was blind.

In 7 days Jimmy Carter will be 100 (posted 9/24/2024)

Agreed, R3. My grandmother was born in 1908 (estimated since there were no real birth records at the time). She was born on a farm and estimated her birth date based on when her other siblings (11 in all) were born.

Anyway, her eldest son, ny uncle, wanted her to live to be 100. She was basically a vegetable the last 2 or 3 years. She died 3 days after her birthday.

Quality of life is shit those last 3-5 years, no matter when you die once you pass 80.

I don't know about that, R33. My Dad turned 90 earlier this month. He's on no medications of any kind and sees his doctor regularly. He just recently flew to visit his sister in FL and that was no small feat. He had a niece come to pick him up and drive him to another niece's house to stay the night. That niece than drove him to the airport. He lives in Orange Cty, NJ so he's not close to any major airports. I'm 62 and the thought of driving to NJT (a ten minute drive, tops), taking the train into Penn, walking around the city, and reversing that trip is exhausting to me and I'm on 62!!

My father will be 92 next week. He and my mom are still living independently. She’s 87. His health was excellent- still driving, getting groceries, doing banking, etc., but this summer he was at Emergency multiple times because of weakness, dizziness, nausea, blood pressure problems…. We just recently found out he has an irregular heartbeat which is the cause. I know my parents aren’t going to live forever, but to see his health change so quickly is terrifying. He had a hospital appointment this morning (and another tomorrow) and walking down the hospital hallway he had to stop and rest because he was out of breath. He said to me that maybe he and my mother should move into a nursing home. For him to be thinking that, I know he’s not feeling well.

Getting old sucks.

[quote] He wants to live long enough to vote for Kamala Harris

THIS ELECTION IS RIGGED! DEMOCRATS HAVE DEAD PEOPLE VOTING!!!!

R33 It depends. My neighbor is 97, she still goes to the supermarket by foot a couple of times a week pushing her grocery hand cart which is about 4 blocks away. She also goes to church most Sundays which is about 7 blocks away. Personally I hope to retire at 67 and would like to live 20 more years if my health is good and I have satisfactory mobility. After that I wouldn't complain if I died. I don't think I would want to live past 90.

R34 right. Morgan Freeman is damn near 90. My grandmother will be 90 soon. Some people just have the genes to just keep going until they die in their sleep but no serious ailments. It will be telling if scientists discover a way for us to stop aging completely.

R10 Isn’t he Texan?

Is this exclusively Georgian artists?

Three days to go. Where 's the vulture of death grandson, prepping the bye-bye injection?

Does Georgia have early voting?

Yes, R41, but that doesn't start until October. Imagine Trump's reaction if he were to lose Georgia by one vote, & Jimmy Carter voted.

R41, yes. October 15th

One sleep till Cartermas!

He made it! Happy 100th President Cater!

*Carter*

It's October 1st! I made it, bitches!

The first centenarian president. He's not quite alive though, is he?

Looking at him last November, at his wife's funeral, I wouldn't have bet a plug nickel that he'd make it to his 100th birthday.

R48...he has a pulse...

R49 I also didn't believe he would last more than 4 weeks.

To be honest, R51, I wasn't sure he was even alive during the service.